{"id":1657,"date":"2023-03-13T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2023-03-13T17:01:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T21:01:51","slug":"so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/so-it-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"So it begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just wrote about how bad rent control will be for the community, and here&#8217;s a story about a landlord who has decided to start charging for parking permits, &#8220;because parking is such a big problem.&#8221;  Uh huh. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/gallery\/oaks-of-oxon-hill-parking-plan-rent-control-spike-charges-residents-angered-mike-murphy-ed-burroughs-permit-towed-money-grab?photo=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1658\" srcset=\"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-300x169.png 300w, http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-768x432.png 768w, http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/gallery\/oaks-of-oxon-hill-parking-plan-rent-control-spike-charges-residents-angered-mike-murphy-ed-burroughs-permit-towed-money-grab?photo=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ABC7<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/oaks-of-oxon-hill-parking-plan-rent-control-spike-charges-residents-angered-mike-murphy-ed-burroughs-permit-towed-money-grab\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The complex&#8217;s solution is a new parking program that suddenly demands residents pay $52 for a parking permit and $103 for a reserved spot. The letter also said there will be a waitlist followed by a smiley face emoji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end, in bold red print, it said, &#8220;any car onsite without a permit by April 1 will be towed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents at the Oaks of Oxon Hill apartment complex are outraged after management added new rent charges. (7News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Where did they come up with this $52 and $103 to charge us for parking? It\u2019s a money grab. I didn\u2019t like it one bit,&#8221; Murphy said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prince George\u2019s County Council Member Ed Burroughs agreed that the apartment&#8217;s plan to charge its residents more is not fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m shocked and I\u2019m very angry about it,&#8221; Burroughs said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>County Council member Burroughs called the letter &#8220;disrespectful to residents.&#8221; He believes the management of Oaks at Oxon Hill is simply trying to raise the rent in defiance of the county\u2019s new rent control law which caps yearly increases at 3%. He explained he\u2019ll be meeting with management soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/local\/oaks-of-oxon-hill-parking-plan-rent-control-spike-charges-residents-angered-mike-murphy-ed-burroughs-permit-towed-money-grab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ABC7<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wrote about how bad rent control will be for the community, and here&#8217;s a story about a landlord who has decided to start charging for parking permits, &#8220;because &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,530],"tags":[192,359,402],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maryland-politics","category-peegee","tag-economy","tag-not-surprising-2","tag-prince-georges-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}